There is no greater school than a revolution. "Ten Days That Shook the World" John Reed

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http://isreview.org/issue/82/education-literacy-and-russian-revolution

"THERE IS no greater school than a revolution. It is therefore not
surprising that some of the most innovative, radical, and successful
literacy campaigns are those that are born out of revolutionsâ??when, on a
mass scale, people fight for a better society. In revolutionary periods,
ideas matter as never before, and literacy needs no motivation as it
becomes a truly liberatory endeavor. Thus, from the trenches of the US
Civil War and the Russian front to the battle lines of El Salvador,
there are innumerable stories of soldiers teaching each other to read
newspapers in the midst of war and famine. One of the most inspiring
examples of the revolutionary transformation of literacy and education
is the Russian Revolution of 1917."